Sentence examples for higher motive from inspiring English sources

It risks falsely dignifying these deplorable acts with an undeserved varnish of higher motive.

There is no higher motive involved — with the majority — unless membership in a party because one's father was a member of it is one.

Bosch and his contemporaries believed in the existence of the damned, and those painted, freakish sufferers were vessels of genuine dread, whereas "In Bruges" calls its characters to their final reckoning with no higher motive than to blow them merrily away.

The results also show that the recovered pressure improves to 75 Torr for an off-design condition of higher motive flow rate.

When your spouse's behavior is open to interpretation, ascribe the higher motive.

Beyond love and self-fulfillment, Chmerkovskiy has a higher motive, as well: helping his troubled homeland.

HEFFERNAN -- A hero has higher motives?

They may surprise themselves by the insistence of their own higher motives and values.

It's man who is labelled the "three-legged slob", while the women - often equally predatory - are generally given at least some higher motives to explain their behaviour.

The self, he contended, is an identifiable organization within each individual and accounts for the unity of personality, higher motives, and continuity of personal memories.

A former lawyer, Mr Nakabo is outspoken, driven (some say obsessive) and clearly fired by higher motives: at the HLAC, he has even declined a salary.Mr Nakabo's new outfit will be formed from a merger between the HLAC and the Resolution Collection Bank, a government debt-collector with a much less impressive record.